Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Caesar Hull

Index Caesar Hull

Squadron Leader Caesar Barrand Hull, DFC (26 February 1914 – 7 September 1940) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) flying ace during the Second World War, noted especially for his part in the fighting for Narvik during the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, and for being one of "The Few"—the Allied pilots of the Battle of Britain, in which he was shot down and killed. [1]

99 relations: Aerobatics, Afrikaans, Bardufoss Air Station, Barrel roll, Battle of Britain, Battles of Narvik, Biplane, Bodø, Bodø Airport, Bodø Main Air Station, Bulawayo, Commanding officer, Company rule in Rhodesia, Coquet Island, England, Coulsdon Sixth Form College, Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom), Dive bomber, Dogfight, English Channel, Fairey Swordfish, Fallschirmjäger, Feldwebel, Fleet Air Arm, Flight (military unit), Flying ace, Flying officer, Frank Reginald Carey, George VI, Gloster Gladiator, Guildford, Gweru, Harstad, Hawker Fury, Hawker Hart, Hawker Hurricane, Hector Bolitho, Helmut Lent, Hendon, HMS Furious (47), Home Fleet, Homeschooling, Johannesburg, Junkers Ju 87, Kampfgeschwader 26, Kampfgruppe 100, Kent, Luftwaffe, Minister of Defence (Norway), Narvik, Newcastle upon Tyne, ..., No. 263 Squadron RAF, No. 43 Squadron RAF, No. 85 Squadron RAF, Norwegian Campaign, Norwegian Sea, Oberleutnant, Operation Alphabet, Operation Weserübung, Peter Townsend (RAF officer), Pilot officer, Purley High School for Boys, Purley, London, RAF Acklington, RAF Tangmere, Remembrance Day, Rhodesian Air Force, Robert Mugabe, Rognan, Rolf Arthur Hansen, Royal Air Force, Salangen, Saltdal, Scapa Flow, Scrambling (military), Senja, Shangani River, Shangani, Zimbabwe, Shoreham-by-Sea, Short Sunderland, South African Air Force, Southern Rhodesia, Squadron leader, St Andrew's Church, Tangmere, St John's College, Johannesburg, Stall turn, Strafing, Surrey, Sussex, Swaziland, Tangmere, Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, The Few, Thomas Dalton-Morgan, Union of South Africa, Wick Airport, Wing (military aviation unit), Worthing, Zerstörergeschwader 76, 1934 British Empire Games. Expand index (49 more) »

Aerobatics

Aerobatics (a portmanteau of aerial-acrobatics) is the practice of flying maneuvers involving aircraft attitudes that are not used in normal flight.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Aerobatics · See more »

Afrikaans

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Afrikaans · See more »

Bardufoss Air Station

Bardufoss Air Station (Norwegian: Bardufoss flystasjon) is located in the municipality of Målselv in Troms county in Northern Norway.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Bardufoss Air Station · See more »

Barrel roll

A barrel roll is an aerial maneuver in which an airplane makes a complete rotation on both its longitudinal and lateral axes, causing it to follow a helical path, approximately maintaining its original direction.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Barrel roll · See more »

Battle of Britain

The Battle of Britain (Luftschlacht um England, literally "The Air Battle for England") was a military campaign of the Second World War, in which the Royal Air Force (RAF) defended the United Kingdom (UK) against large-scale attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Battle of Britain · See more »

Battles of Narvik

The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Battles of Narvik · See more »

Biplane

A biplane is a fixed-wing aircraft with two main wings stacked one above the other.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Biplane · See more »

Bodø

Bodø (Bådåddjo) is a town and a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Bodø · See more »

Bodø Airport

Bodø Airport (Bodø lufthavn) is a civil airport in Bodø, Norway.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Bodø Airport · See more »

Bodø Main Air Station

Bodø Air Station (Bodø hovedflystasjon) is a military airbase of the Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) located at Bodø, Norway.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Bodø Main Air Station · See more »

Bulawayo

Bulawayo is the second-largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with, as of the ever disputed 2012 census, a population of 653,337 while Bulawayo Municipal records indicate a population of 1,200,750.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Bulawayo · See more »

Commanding officer

The commanding officer (CO) or, if the incumbent is a general officer, commanding general (CG), is the officer in command of a military unit.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Commanding officer · See more »

Company rule in Rhodesia

The British South Africa Company's administration of what became Rhodesia was chartered in 1889 by Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and began with the Pioneer Column's march north-east to Mashonaland in 1890.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Company rule in Rhodesia · See more »

Coquet Island, England

Coquet Island is a small island of about, situated off Amble on the Northumberland coast, northeast England.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Coquet Island, England · See more »

Coulsdon Sixth Form College

Coulsdon College is a Sixth Form College for 16- to 19-year-olds based in Old Coulsdon, London and is built on the site of Purley High School for Boys.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Coulsdon Sixth Form College · See more »

Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)

The Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) is the third-level military decoration awarded to personnel of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force and other services, and formerly to officers of other Commonwealth countries, instituted for "an act or acts of valour, courage or devotion to duty whilst flying in active operations against the enemy".

New!!: Caesar Hull and Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) · See more »

Dive bomber

A dive bomber is a bomber aircraft that dives directly at its targets in order to provide greater accuracy for the bomb it drops.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Dive bomber · See more »

Dogfight

A dogfight, or dog fight, is an aerial battle between fighter aircraft, conducted at close range.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Dogfight · See more »

English Channel

The English Channel (la Manche, "The Sleeve"; Ärmelkanal, "Sleeve Channel"; Mor Breizh, "Sea of Brittany"; Mor Bretannek, "Sea of Brittany"), also called simply the Channel, is the body of water that separates southern England from northern France and links the southern part of the North Sea to the Atlantic Ocean.

New!!: Caesar Hull and English Channel · See more »

Fairey Swordfish

The Fairey Swordfish was a biplane torpedo bomber designed by the Fairey Aviation Company.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Fairey Swordfish · See more »

Fallschirmjäger

Fallschirmjäger is the German word for paratroopers.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Fallschirmjäger · See more »

Feldwebel

Feldwebel (Fw or F), literally "field usher", is a non-commissioned officer (NCO) rank in several countries.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Feldwebel · See more »

Fleet Air Arm

The Fleet Air Arm (FAA) is the branch of the British Royal Navy responsible for the operation of naval aircraft.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Fleet Air Arm · See more »

Flight (military unit)

A flight is a military unit in an air force, naval air service, or army air corps.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Flight (military unit) · See more »

Flying ace

A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Flying ace · See more »

Flying officer

Flying officer (Fg Off in the RAF and IAF; FLGOFF in the RAAF; FGOFF in the RNZAF; formerly F/O in all services and still frequently in the RAF) is a junior commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Flying officer · See more »

Frank Reginald Carey

Frank Reginald "Chota" Carey, (7 May 1912 – 6 December 2004) was a Royal Air Force (RAF) fighter pilot and flying ace who served during World War II.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Frank Reginald Carey · See more »

George VI

George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 until his death in 1952.

New!!: Caesar Hull and George VI · See more »

Gloster Gladiator

The Gloster Gladiator (or Gloster SS.37) is a British-built biplane fighter.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Gloster Gladiator · See more »

Guildford

Guildford is a large town in Surrey, England, United Kingdom located southwest of central London on the A3 trunk road midway between the capital and Portsmouth.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Guildford · See more »

Gweru

Gweru (named Gwelo until 1982) is a city in central Zimbabwe.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Gweru · See more »

Harstad

is the second-most populated municipality in Troms county, Norway.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Harstad · See more »

Hawker Fury

The Hawker Fury was a British biplane fighter aircraft used by the Royal Air Force in the 1930s.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Hawker Fury · See more »

Hawker Hart

The Hawker Hart was a British two-seater biplane light bomber aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF).

New!!: Caesar Hull and Hawker Hart · See more »

Hawker Hurricane

The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–1940s that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Hawker Hurricane · See more »

Hector Bolitho

(Henry) Hector Bolitho (28 May 1897 – 12 September 1974) was a New Zealand author, novelist and biographer, who had 59 books published.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Hector Bolitho · See more »

Helmut Lent

Helmut Lent (13 June 1918 – 7 October 1944) was a German night-fighter ace in World War II.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Helmut Lent · See more »

Hendon

Hendon is a London suburb in the Borough of Barnet, northwest of Charing Cross.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Hendon · See more »

HMS Furious (47)

HMS Furious was a modified built for the Royal Navy (RN) during the First World War.

New!!: Caesar Hull and HMS Furious (47) · See more »

Home Fleet

The Home Fleet was a fleet of the Royal Navy that operated in the United Kingdom's territorial waters from 1902 with intervals until 1967.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Home Fleet · See more »

Homeschooling

Homeschooling, also known as home education, is the education of children inside the home.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Homeschooling · See more »

Johannesburg

Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Johannesburg · See more »

Junkers Ju 87

The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, "dive bomber") is a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Junkers Ju 87 · See more »

Kampfgeschwader 26

Kampfgeschwader 26 (KG 26) "Löwengeschwader" (in English Bomber Wing 26 aka "Lions' Wing" by virtue of its insignia) was a German air force Luftwaffe bomber wing unit during World War II.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Kampfgeschwader 26 · See more »

Kampfgruppe 100

Kampfgruppe 100 (KGr 100) was a specialist unit of the Luftwaffe during the early stages of World War II.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Kampfgruppe 100 · See more »

Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Kent · See more »

Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Luftwaffe · See more »

Minister of Defence (Norway)

The Norwegian Minister of Defence is the head of the Norwegian Ministry of Defence.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Minister of Defence (Norway) · See more »

Narvik

(Norwegian) or Áhkanjárga (Northern Sami) is the third-largest town and municipality in Nordland county, Norway by population.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Narvik · See more »

Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, commonly known as Newcastle, is a city in Tyne and Wear, North East England, 103 miles (166 km) south of Edinburgh and 277 miles (446 km) north of London on the northern bank of the River Tyne, from the North Sea.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Newcastle upon Tyne · See more »

No. 263 Squadron RAF

No 263 Squadron was a Royal Air Force fighter squadron formed in Italy towards the end of the First World War.

New!!: Caesar Hull and No. 263 Squadron RAF · See more »

No. 43 Squadron RAF

No.

New!!: Caesar Hull and No. 43 Squadron RAF · See more »

No. 85 Squadron RAF

No.

New!!: Caesar Hull and No. 85 Squadron RAF · See more »

Norwegian Campaign

The Norwegian Campaign (9 April to 10 June 1940) was fought in Norway between Norway, the Allies and Germany in World War II after the latter's invasion of the country.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Norwegian Campaign · See more »

Norwegian Sea

The Norwegian Sea (Norskehavet) is a marginal sea in the Arctic Ocean, northwest of Norway.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Norwegian Sea · See more »

Oberleutnant

Oberleutnant (OF-1a) is the highest lieutenant officer rank in the armed forces of Germany (Bundeswehr), Austrian Armed Forces, and Military of Switzerland.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Oberleutnant · See more »

Operation Alphabet

Operation Alphabet was an evacuation, authorised on May 24, 1940, of Allied (British, French and Polish) troops from the harbour of Narvik in northern Norway marking the success of Operation Weserübung the Nazi Germany invasion of April 9 and the end of the Allied campaign in Norway during World War II.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Operation Alphabet · See more »

Operation Weserübung

Operation Weserübung was the code name for Germany's assault on Denmark and Norway during the Second World War and the opening operation of the Norwegian Campaign.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Operation Weserübung · See more »

Peter Townsend (RAF officer)

Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, (22 November 1914 – 19 June 1995) was a Royal Air Force officer, flying ace, courtier and author.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Peter Townsend (RAF officer) · See more »

Pilot officer

Pilot officer (Plt Off officially in the RAF; PLTOFF in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly P/O in all services, and still often used in the RAF) is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countries.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Pilot officer · See more »

Purley High School for Boys

Purley High School for Boys existed from 1914 to 1988.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Purley High School for Boys · See more »

Purley, London

Purley is a town in South London within the London Borough of Croydon.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Purley, London · See more »

RAF Acklington

Royal Air Force Station Acklington, simply known as RAF Acklington, is a former Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force station located south west of Amble, Northumberland and north east of Morpeth, Northumberland.

New!!: Caesar Hull and RAF Acklington · See more »

RAF Tangmere

RAF Tangmere which was in Tangmere, 3 miles (5 km) east of Chichester, West Sussex, England, was a Royal Air Force station famous for its role in the Battle of Britain.

New!!: Caesar Hull and RAF Tangmere · See more »

Remembrance Day

Remembrance Day (sometimes known informally as Poppy Day) is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth of Nations member states since the end of the First World War to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Remembrance Day · See more »

Rhodesian Air Force

The Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) was an air force based in Salisbury (now Harare) which represented several entities under various names between 1935 and 1980: originally serving the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia, it was the air arm of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland between 1953 and 31 December 1963; of Southern Rhodesia once again from 1 January 1964; and of the unrecognised nation of Rhodesia following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from Britain on 11 November 1965.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Rhodesian Air Force · See more »

Robert Mugabe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born 21 February 1924) is a former Zimbabwean politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Robert Mugabe · See more »

Rognan

Rognan is a village and the administrative centre of the municipality of Saltdal in Nordland county, Norway.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Rognan · See more »

Rolf Arthur Hansen

Rolf Arthur Hansen (23 July 1920 – 26 July 2006) was a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Rolf Arthur Hansen · See more »

Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Royal Air Force · See more »

Salangen

Salangen is a municipality in Troms county, Norway.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Salangen · See more »

Saltdal

Saltdal (Sálát) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Saltdal · See more »

Scapa Flow

Scapa Flow viewed from its eastern end in June 2009 Scapa Flow is a body of water in the Orkney Islands, Scotland, sheltered by the islands of Mainland, Graemsay, Burray,S.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Scapa Flow · See more »

Scrambling (military)

In military aviation, scrambling is the act of quickly getting military aircraft airborne to react to an immediate threat, usually to intercept hostile aircraft.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Scrambling (military) · See more »

Senja

Senja (Sážžá) is the second largest island in Norway (not counting Svalbard).

New!!: Caesar Hull and Senja · See more »

Shangani River

The Shangani is a river in Zimbabwe that starts near Gweru, Gweru River being one of its main tributaries' and goes through Midlands and Matabeleland North provinces.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Shangani River · See more »

Shangani, Zimbabwe

Shangani is a small farming settlement in Zimbabwe, near the Shangani River on the road between Gweru and Bulawayo.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Shangani, Zimbabwe · See more »

Shoreham-by-Sea

Shoreham-by-Sea (often shortened to Shoreham) is a seaside town and port in West Sussex, England.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Shoreham-by-Sea · See more »

Short Sunderland

The Short S.25 Sunderland was a British flying boat patrol bomber, developed and constructed by Short Brothers for the Royal Air Force (RAF).

New!!: Caesar Hull and Short Sunderland · See more »

South African Air Force

The South African Air Force (SAAF) is the air force of South Africa, with headquarters in Pretoria.

New!!: Caesar Hull and South African Air Force · See more »

Southern Rhodesia

The Colony of Southern Rhodesia was a self-governing British Crown colony in southern Africa from 1923 to 1980, the predecessor state of modern Zimbabwe.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Southern Rhodesia · See more »

Squadron leader

Squadron leader (Sqn Ldr in the RAF; SQNLDR in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly sometimes S/L in all services) is a commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many countries which have historical British influence.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Squadron leader · See more »

St Andrew's Church, Tangmere

St Andrew's Church is a Church of England church, located in Tangmere, West Sussex.

New!!: Caesar Hull and St Andrew's Church, Tangmere · See more »

St John's College, Johannesburg

St John's College is a private school for boys in South Africa.

New!!: Caesar Hull and St John's College, Johannesburg · See more »

Stall turn

The hammerhead turn, stall turn, or Fieseler is an aerobatics turn-around maneuver.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Stall turn · See more »

Strafing

Strafing is the military practice of attacking ground targets from low-flying aircraft using aircraft-mounted automatic weapons Less commonly, the term can be used—by extension—to describe high-speed firing runs by any land or naval craft (e.g. fast boats) using smaller-caliber weapons and targeting stationary or slow-moving targets.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Strafing · See more »

Surrey

Surrey is a county in South East England, and one of the home counties.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Surrey · See more »

Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Sussex · See more »

Swaziland

Swaziland, officially the Kingdom of Eswatini since April 2018 (Swazi: Umbuso weSwatini), is a landlocked sovereign state in Southern Africa.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Swaziland · See more »

Tangmere

Tangmere is a village, civil parish, and electoral ward in the Chichester District of West Sussex, England.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Tangmere · See more »

Tangmere Military Aviation Museum

The Tangmere Military Aviation Museum is a museum located on the former site of RAF Tangmere, West Sussex.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Tangmere Military Aviation Museum · See more »

The Few

The Few were the airmen of the Royal Air Force (RAF) who fought the Battle of Britain in the Second World War.

New!!: Caesar Hull and The Few · See more »

Thomas Dalton-Morgan

Thomas Frederick Dalton-Morgan, (23 March 1917 – 18 September 2004) was a fighter pilot and flying ace of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Thomas Dalton-Morgan · See more »

Union of South Africa

The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika, Unie van Suid-Afrika) is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Union of South Africa · See more »

Wick Airport

Wick John O' Groats Airport is located north of the town of Wick in Caithness at the north-eastern extremity of the mainland of Scotland.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Wick Airport · See more »

Wing (military aviation unit)

In military aviation, a wing is a unit of command.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Wing (military aviation unit) · See more »

Worthing

Worthing is a large seaside town in England, with borough status in West Sussex.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Worthing · See more »

Zerstörergeschwader 76

Zerstörergeschwader 76 (ZG 76) was a Zerstörer (heavy fighter; lit. "destroyer") geschwader (equivalent to a wing or group) of the German Luftwaffe during World War II.

New!!: Caesar Hull and Zerstörergeschwader 76 · See more »

1934 British Empire Games

The 1934 British Empire Games were the second of what is now known as the Commonwealth Games, held in England, from 4–11 August 1934.

New!!: Caesar Hull and 1934 British Empire Games · See more »

Redirects here:

Caesar Barrand Hull, Ceasar Hull, Cesar Hull.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_Hull

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »